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- From: nhmas@gauss.med.harvard.edu (Mark Shneyder)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.movies
- Subject: Re: Hoffa?
- Message-ID: <2345@hsdndev.UUCP>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 15:35:21 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.230056.1@acad3.alaska.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec30.230056.1@acad3.alaska.edu> fncll@acad3.alaska.edu writes:
- >Despite the intense media barrage and endless previes, I am looking forward to
- >seeing Hoffa but have heard bad things about it already.//// has anyone seen
- >it-- would I be wasting my money?
- >
- >I am a real fan of Nocholson btw...
- >
-
- Well,Nocholson has finally turned in a Nicholson perfomance in this one.
- It's been awhile. If you don't count his Joker in Batman,he has been a
- Nocholson since...oh,The Shining.(No flames from the fans of Terms Of
- Enearment and Two Jakes,please :-).
-
- No,you won't be wasting your money. Nicholson's Hoffa compensates for
- all the flaws with the script this movie has. I do agree with Danny
- DeVitto that it's really a Hollywood version with heavy emphasis on
- entertainment and it's not a Shakespeare production filled with precise
- facts and details.
-
- -Mark
-